Chasing the Red Queen: The Evolutionary Race Between Agricultural Pests and Poisons

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Never-Ending Race: Adaptation and Environmental Stress....Pages 3-13
The Evolution of Farming: Scaling Up Productivity....Pages 15-32
Survival of the Fittest: Darwin’s Principles....Pages 33-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Reductionist Farming: Losing Ecosystem Services....Pages 45-60
A Weed by Any Other Name: Monocultures and Wild Species....Pages 61-69
Running Faster: Insecticide and Herbicide Resistance....Pages 71-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Exercises in Futility: Cases of Resistance....Pages 83-93
King Cotton vs. the Red Queen....Pages 95-105
The Cornucopia of Maize vs. the Red Queen....Pages 107-115
The Red Queen Trumps Technology: The Failures of Biotech....Pages 117-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Understanding the Chase to Escape the Cycle....Pages 135-141
Slowing the Race by Slowing the Attack....Pages 143-158
Ecosystem Farming: Letting Nature Do the Work....Pages 159-171
Integrated Systems and Long-Term Stability....Pages 173-188
Epilogue: Putting All of Our Eggs in a Diversity of Baskets....Pages 189-192
Back Matter....Pages 193-221